TfL pushes on with Tram extension to Sutton
Plans for to extend the South London tram service down towards Sutton have taken a step further with the publication of the results of a recent consultation.
Plans for to extend the South London tram service down towards Sutton have taken a step further with the publication of the results of a recent consultation.
London’s tram service could get an extension southwards to Sutton as TfL opens a consultation into which of three routes it will build.
Two tube stations, a train station, and a bit of tram track have all been given funding for upgrade works to commence.
A report from the Mayor of London’s office has outlined some aspirations for railway upgrades over the next couple of decades, including extending Crossrail and the Tram service.
The South London trams snake around the region offering a convenient east-west link, but once could have also been extended to just outside the former Crystal Palace.
It seems difficult to believe, but London’s famous driverless trains came very close to having drivers, and being a tram network, not a train one.
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